The row of mail boxes up at the main road can be a pretty raggedy sight, but not ours. Not any more...
a little "late Mother's Day gift" Andee said when the package arrived in the mail this week...
Five adorable bunnies. I just want to reach in and pick one up. Looks like I'm going to have to get myself another real live bunny. My heart still aches for those at Mr. Murphy farm.
Thank you Andee and Todd.
Remember when Grandpa Jones used to ask, "what's for supper"? Well last night it was...
Candied sweet potatoes...
Oh my goodness friends! More than 20 years ago I gave up trying to make candied sweet potatoes like those mama made.
Thought to myself, everything else can be Googled, why not old timey candied sweet potatoes? Found what sounded most like mama's...but left out the spices...
Mama never covered up that delicious sweet potato flovor with spices...
this is simply sweet potato, real butter, and sugar. I left them simmering until the syrup was sticky and the potatoes were a touch crisp or chewy on the edges.
Of course, a pan of cornbread was necessary...
to go with the green beans and hand full of small potatoes, seasoned with a little fat back grease, fresh from the teeny tiny garden. Grandpa Jones would have approved, don't you think...
and in the small bowl, stewed yellow squash, who would have thought! and here...
the more tender green beans I cooked with garlic and butter...
Eli says, "well, can we eat now"! What a surprise again this summer to get yellow squash from the garden. No stinking squash bugs, yet, anyways.
Better get busy. I was happily mowing away yesterday when my little red mower knocked off. Poppy tinkered with it for a while...told me to let it sit over night and if it doesn't run today he will get Truman to look at it.
Truman is a trip! The folks around here call him the junk man...you should see his place! Maybe I'll get a picture and do a "Truman" post.
Okay, the squash picture came out on the bottom??
Be back soon (hopefully)...
Love, Henny